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almost as rapidly as railroad tracks were laid, and he will outlive 
the present depression in the same manner. The American 
Horse Breeder had an interesting statistical article to this effect in 
its issue of March 3d. 
The Veterinarian’s Future. —Apropos of the recent 
meeting of the Pennsylvania State Veterinary Medical Associa¬ 
tion, a writer in the Turf ‘ Field and Farm says:—“ It does, how¬ 
ever, seem, notwithstanding the plaudits of the meeting, the lot 
of the practicing veterinarian is by no means a desirable one. 
With the diminishing use of the horse, low prices and increasing 
intelligence of the people, and flooding the country with pre¬ 
pared nostrums, the veterinarian is bound to find his field or fu¬ 
ture operations a circumscribed one indeed, and he has our 
sympathy,” which simply shows that the writer of that para¬ 
graph is not sufficiently acquainted with his subject to know that 
the veterinarian’s future calling is an expanding rather than a 
contracting one. 
High-Priced Canines. —Senator Wm. PI. Reynolds, of 
Brooklyn, N. Y., purchased at the late Westminster Kennel Club 
Show, at Madison Square Garden, the champion St. Bernard dog 
Otos, and his young son, Hellgate Defender, paying for them 
$4,000 and $2,500 respectively. 
Members who desire to present papers before the U.S.V.M. A. 
at Buffalo, in September, should at once notify the Secretary, Dr. 
S. Stewart, of Kansas City, Kansas. The programme will be 
made up and placed in the hands of the membership at the 
earliest possible date. 
At A SPECIAL Civil Service examination held in Kansas City, 
March 10th, six veterinarians took the examinations for the posi¬ 
tion of meat inspector, about 40 men for the office of live 
stock examiner, and 10 for tagger. 
Free Veterinary Service. —The following advertisement 
was in the New York Herald of Sunday, March 8th. : “ Horses in¬ 
sured against death by disease or accident. Free veterinary ser¬ 
vice and medicines furnished. (N. Y. Vet. Hospital Service for 
N. Y. City.) Prominent Veterinarians for all other points. 
$30,000 paid for losses in New York City. Reserve Fund Live 
Stock Insurance Co., Lincoln Building, Union square, N. Y. 
City. Write for particulars.”—The moving spirit of the New 
York Veterinary Hospital is now under charges before the New 
York County Veterinary Medical Association. A man of stand¬ 
ing who becomes the insurance “free doctor,” does a great injury 
to honest practitioners, and brings a boomerang upon himself. 
